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or regulate us out of the market. and that the drilling rigs will leave. the labor force will leave. and we will be left with a fishing village. >> which doesn't support a whole lot of people. >> does not . it's a scary prospect. if we can't put our oil patch to work what is going to be left of south louisiana, even places like houston, texas. it's not just morgan city or south louisiana concern. it's a united states concern. >> i could tell the beach wasn't as crowded. the restaurants weren't as crowded. >> reporter: morgan city mayor tim moth says the town is determined not let any of this put a damper on shat riferp and petroleum festival. >> there was that poll done earlier this year that said louisiana is the happiest state in the nation. and i think that is reflective of our community too. certainly things like the moratorium caused some concern but you get to kind of put some of that aside for a weekend like this and kind of just enjoy each other's company, enjoy the music. enjoy the food. >> moth and others in
or regulate us out of the market. and that the drilling rigs will leave. the labor force will leave. and we will be left with a fishing village. >> which doesn't support a whole lot of people. >> does not . it's a scary prospect. if we can't put our oil patch to work what is going to be left of south louisiana, even places like houston, texas. it's not just morgan city or south louisiana concern. it's a united states concern. >> i could tell the beach wasn't as crowded. the...
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he tried to use ... it struck me, the one unifying element in that whole national experience were the troops. the troops became the center piece of moving from iraq to the economy. i mean.... >> lehrer: through afghanistan. >> and then to the economy. we had to show the same kint of mettle and dedication and courage that they had shown here at home. we owed it to them to do it. but in answer to your question, jim, what did lincoln say at gettysburg? a little note the world won't long remember. he was excessively modest in his own words. i can't imagine that this speech will be learned by elementary school kids. >> lehrer: just to not pick up on that. david, the idea that the the president, you know, this is a war without surrender , ceremonies, and that we've had lot of those. is he essentially saying we have to get used to that? this is the way modern wars will be ... have been and will be. is that something.... >> not necessarily true. i mean yugoslavia there was a winner and a loser. i'm not sure he's
he tried to use ... it struck me, the one unifying element in that whole national experience were the troops. the troops became the center piece of moving from iraq to the economy. i mean.... >> lehrer: through afghanistan. >> and then to the economy. we had to show the same kint of mettle and dedication and courage that they had shown here at home. we owed it to them to do it. but in answer to your question, jim, what did lincoln say at gettysburg? a little note the world won't...
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two-thirds want us to leave. they still want a relationship and a partnership with us, but they want to claim their own sovereign ability to secure themselves. >> reporter: but you're not saying that the obama administration would absolutely refuse if six months from now, a new iraqi government said it would be helpful for us to-- >> it would be highly unlikely that we would even consider the idea of maintaining 50,000 troops indefinitely here in iraq. but we have committed and we will keep the commitment to the iraqi people and the government that all troops will be out by the end of next year. if they come forward and say, "we don't want you to do that. we want to you leave some troops to help us on a specific item," we'd, obviously, consider that. >> reporter: now, president obama noted last night he was keeping his campaign pledge. >> yes. >> reporter: what kind of credit do you expect voters to give your administration and the democrats in november on this point, that you're getting out of iraq, as you said
two-thirds want us to leave. they still want a relationship and a partnership with us, but they want to claim their own sovereign ability to secure themselves. >> reporter: but you're not saying that the obama administration would absolutely refuse if six months from now, a new iraqi government said it would be helpful for us to-- >> it would be highly unlikely that we would even consider the idea of maintaining 50,000 troops indefinitely here in iraq. but we have committed and we...
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you've shown us the stalemate in iraq. has there been any movement to report in recent negotiations? are there any proposals on the table for breaking the stalemate? >> warner: well, ray, there are some proposals on the table that would help sort of power sharing arrangement between the two top vote getter, prime minister maliki, former prime minister allawi. but vice president biden came here to give the two sides a kick in the pants, if you will. and to say you have to get serious about talking to one another. and he told them that the u.s. administration is growing alarmed that some of these recent terrorist attacks we've seen aimed at government institutions-- army, police, municipal buildings-- are being encouraged by this political vacuum. so he talked you are the i do both of them. he said to maliki, "look, no one sells going to accept you as prime minister unless you give up some of the power you've accrued to yourself while prime minister." for instance, he has this 56th brigade and it's basically an army brigade
you've shown us the stalemate in iraq. has there been any movement to report in recent negotiations? are there any proposals on the table for breaking the stalemate? >> warner: well, ray, there are some proposals on the table that would help sort of power sharing arrangement between the two top vote getter, prime minister maliki, former prime minister allawi. but vice president biden came here to give the two sides a kick in the pants, if you will. and to say you have to get serious about...
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what does history tell us? >> i think there is some concern about donor fatigue for a couple of reasons. one because the economy is, you know, weaker than it has been at other times. on the other hand, we saw disaster relief giving for haiti turn out to be quite strong. quite sustained for many months. so that doesn't tell the whole story. i mean i think that's part of it. in fact, perhaps some of the haiti relief giving is part of the donor fatigue. on the other hand, i think that general when americans give, the average gift has ranged between $125 and $135 per household for different disasters. so the gifts tend to be relatively small. a lot of people giving a relatively small amount. in fact the gift for all the disasters we've track has been $are 50. you know that most people can spend $50 in a lot of different ways so it's not as if people are refinancing their house in order to give these disaster relief gifts. that's not to disparage those gifts. it's just to say that they're relatively small amounts. f
what does history tell us? >> i think there is some concern about donor fatigue for a couple of reasons. one because the economy is, you know, weaker than it has been at other times. on the other hand, we saw disaster relief giving for haiti turn out to be quite strong. quite sustained for many months. so that doesn't tell the whole story. i mean i think that's part of it. in fact, perhaps some of the haiti relief giving is part of the donor fatigue. on the other hand, i think that...
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he joins us from pittsburgh. i ben welcome, thanks for joining us. 1.4 billion is a lot of money and what's been tough times for the airlines, why is southwest doing this, what is driving this? >> there are ray couple of things. first of all, as you mentioned sot west has been at there for a while now. while they were the scrappy upstart in the '80s and even into the 9 0s. their business model is pretty mature at this point and there aren't many misses left for them to expand that are flarl fits are for their business model. one of the best cities and the biggest one they don't yet fly to is atlanta so it's no coincidence that air tran, biggest city is atlanta and this will put southwest into atlanta in a big way. and it really positions southwest to go back to a position of growth by acquiring air tran and eventually incorporating if into its network. >> and there are roar cities that right now southwest isn't in, aren't there sm. >> there are about 37 that air tran flies to that southwest doesn't go to. so sout
he joins us from pittsburgh. i ben welcome, thanks for joining us. 1.4 billion is a lot of money and what's been tough times for the airlines, why is southwest doing this, what is driving this? >> there are ray couple of things. first of all, as you mentioned sot west has been at there for a while now. while they were the scrappy upstart in the '80s and even into the 9 0s. their business model is pretty mature at this point and there aren't many misses left for them to expand that are...